You seem to imply that everything is fine in this absolutely chaotic situation. And for some strange reason you are pointing the blame to the HDD manufacturers. I don't agree with you, sorry. There are lots of manufacturers who have been clearly wrong and inconsistent. For example: - Floppy manufacturers who labelled floppies as 1.44 MB (mixing base-10 and base-2 in a really stupid way) - Optical disc manufacturers who switched unexpectedly from base-2 with CDs to base-10 with DVDs and Blurays - USB Flash drive manufacturers who have also switched from base-2 to base-10 labelling But HDD manufacturers have been coherent the whole time. They have kept the original SI definition since the very beginning!
Forcing "coherency" into a field that perfectly got along before has not improved the situation. "The proposal has seen little adoption by the computer industry, and the conventionally prefixed forms of "byte" continue to denote slightly different values depending on context." As evident by even the latest Windows not giving a s**t about MiB et al. Edit: Now get off my lawn
Ok, I agree with you on that. The situation has not improved, certainly now has degraded even more (especially with linux and Mac OS X adopting base-10, but Windows still keeping base-2) Given that we're now deep into some serious s**t and confusion, the only sane solution would be to screw traditions and start doing the correct thing from now on!
Maybe in 40 years when you've outgrown all generations who know different. And seriously, try saying Gibibyte out loud and not feel stupid. It just won't work.
It will probably take decades, but given the popularity of smartphones and tablets (a large percentage of which are using Linux or Mac OS, hence are using base-10) it's inevitable. Microsoft is no longer the dominant force in mobile computing. Sooner or later even the software behemoth will have to concede defeat and adopt base-10 units.
You people have got right off the deep end. The guy asked one simple question that none of you have answered. get a life and help the guy out or shut up. Stop turning everything into a debate on who is right or wrong or smarter or not. GIVE THE GUY AN ANSWER IF YOU CAN, not all the BS One thing I would like to know is, what is the difference between NTFS and exFAT
You need to convert your your HDD from MBR to GPT. However, you can't boot off that HDD unless your mobo BIOS support EUFI.
Not sure how the peep on page one did that working out but its miles out. The 3TB HDD will appear as 2.72GB in Windows. I had to use Western Digital's App to format my ext My Book to get the full capacity, using windows or DOS etc it was not even 500GB (cannot remember exact size) for some reason.
I dont have an answer to it. I came here because I have a 2.5TB drive that only lets me format 1.86TB the rest is unusable. So I am looking for an answer to it all so. Have tried exfat to setup the drive and it also does not let me have the whole drive. It gives me more of the drive but not all. I have a Samsung drive. There is no help on the Samsung site for it. I know some is set aside for drive system but not that much I would think. What I think is that to make the drive work faster it sets some of the drive aside for cach, but I could be wrong. but with you guys going on about things that dont matter or dont answer the question does not help anyone.
MBR (Master Boot Record) can only address 2^32 sectors. And because the Hard Drives usually have sectors with a size of 512 byte, the limit of MBR is 2199023255552 byte. So to use only 1 Partition with full 3 TB you have to choose GPT instead of MBR for the Partition Type. 3 TB MBR Partitions are only possible if the Hard drive is using sector size of 1KB or more, like external 3TB harddrives do. But operating systems like Windows XP arent support GPT Partition type (well, XP 64bit does), and also with OS like Windows 7 32bit you can access GPT Partitions, but to boot from an GPT partition u need to have an UEFI instead of normal BIOS.
What VelleX has said about GPT is correct. The main difference between exFAT and NTFS is security. You cannot set permissions on files or folders with exFAT. You'll need NTFS for that.